Improvement in medical compounds or liniments



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GERSHOM H. FAIRGHILD, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

IMPROVEMENT IN MEDICAL COMPOUNDS OR LINIMENTS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 118,706, dated September 5, 1871.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GERSHOM H. FAIRGHILD, of the city and county of St. Louis and State of Missouri, have invented a certain new and useful Liniment of which the following is a specification My liniinent consists of the following ingredients and welhknown compounds in about the proportions named: Opodeldoe, eight ounces; British oil four ounces; hartshorn, four ounces; alcohol, four ounces; laudanuln, two ounces; oil of camphor, one ounce; oil of pepper, one ounce. Total, twenty-four ounces.

The above are mixed together and the liniment is ready for immediate use. It is applied externally and with friction; and is for the relief and cure of rheumatic aifections.

I claim as my invention- The composition above described to form a liniment.

In testimony of which invention I hereunto set my hand.

GERSHOM H. FAIROHILD. Witnesses:

SAML. KNIGHT; JAs. H. PARKHURST. 

